Records of the organization Experiments in Art and Technology, generated and collected by its president, Billy Klüver, and
other staff members, the bulk from 1966-1973. Materials include project files, correspondence, proposals, reports, photographs,
posters, audiovisual materials, minutes, clippings, printed matter, and other items.

Background

E.A.T., an organization devoted to promoting the interaction between art and technology, developed from the collaboration
between Billy Klüver and Robert Rauschenberg. E.A.T. founders, Billy Klüver, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Whitman and Fred
Waldhauer, believed that collaboration between artists and scientists would greatly benefit society as a whole. The organization
was created after the landmark event "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering," 1966, and sought to continue the artist / engineer
relationship forged during those performances. E.A.T.'s primary goal was to give artists access to new materials, such as
plastics, reflecting materials, resins, video, and technologies, such as electronics and computers, which would have been
otherwise inaccessible. Staff and participants explored or experimented with these and the precursors of many technologies
that are now commonplace: chat lines, fax machines, lasers, cable television, and digitized graphics.